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[28 journals]- Green Libraries Are More Than Just Buildings. Aulisio, George J.
- Abstract: Many colleges and universities across the United States have adopted sustainability in their curriculum and operations. Academic libraries need to support the mission of their university and therefore must also play their part in sustainability education and operations. The library and information science literature shows the term “green library” to be a hallmark for a library building with an environmentally friendly design. However, there are very few academic libraries in the United States that are LEED certified. I argue that a green library is more than what the architecture entails. By using example initiatives and providing recommendations for green library operations, it is determined that a green library does not necessarily entail a green building, but it does involve a green mission.
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Many colleges and universities across the United States have adopted sustainability in their curriculum and operations. Academic libraries need to support the mission of their university and therefore must also play their part in sustainability education and operations. The library and information science literature shows the term “green library” to be a hallmark for a library building with an environmentally friendly design. However, there are very few academic libraries in the United States that are LEED certified. I argue that a green library is more than what the architecture entails. By using example initiatives and providing recommendations for green library operations, it is determined that a green library does not necessarily entail a green building, but it does involve a green mission.
- Review: The Environmental Rights Revolution: Constitutions, Human Rights and the Environment. Laberge, Yves
- Abstract: Book Review: The Environmental Rights Revolution: Constitutions, Human Rights and the Environment
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: The Environmental Rights Revolution: Constitutions, Human Rights and the Environment
- Review: The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics. Miller, Ryder W.
- Abstract: Review: The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Review: The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
- Review: This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism. Laberge, Yves
- Abstract: Book Review: This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism
- Reviews: From the End of Energy and Unlocking Energy Innovation. Kunnas, Jan
- Abstract: The End of Energy provides a good historical overview how the US energy system ended up in its current state, where the United States, with only 4 percent of the world’s population, consumes one-quarter of the energy the world uses each year. Unlocking Energy Innovation again gives an action plan how to close the resulting big energy efficiency gap to Europe and Japan.
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: The End of Energy provides a good historical overview how the US energy system ended up in its current state, where the United States, with only 4 percent of the world’s population, consumes one-quarter of the energy the world uses each year. Unlocking Energy Innovation again gives an action plan how to close the resulting big energy efficiency gap to Europe and Japan.
- Review: Rare Plants of Washington State. Miller, Ryder W.
- Abstract: Review: Rare Plants of Washington State
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Review: Rare Plants of Washington State
- Review: Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu. Fiala, Matthew
- Abstract: Review: Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Review: Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu
- Review: Shopping for Good. Anderson, Byron P.
- Abstract: Book Review: Shopping for Good
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Shopping for Good
- Review: Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies. Laberge, Yves
- Abstract: Book Review: Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies
- Review: Integrating Climate, Energy and Air Pollution. Toohey, David E.
- Abstract: Review: Integrating Climate, Energy and Air Pollution
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Review: Integrating Climate, Energy and Air Pollution
- Review: International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. Laberge, Yves
- Abstract: Book Review: International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education
- Review: Preparing for Climate Change. Kunnas, Jan
- Abstract: Book Review: Preparing for Climate change
"Climate change is inevitable, but disaster is not."
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Preparing for Climate change
"Climate change is inevitable, but disaster is not."
- Review: Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle. Helman, Daniel S
- Abstract: Thomas A. Lyson, G.W. Stevenson, and Rick Welsh (Eds.) Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 296 pp. ISBN 9780262622158. US $27.00, paperback.
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Thomas A. Lyson, G.W. Stevenson, and Rick Welsh (Eds.) Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 296 pp. ISBN 9780262622158. US $27.00, paperback.
- Review: Global Climate Change. Smith, Jennifer
- Abstract: Book Review: Global Climate Change
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Global Climate Change
- Review: Greening the Media. Laberge, Yves
- Abstract: Book Review: Greening the Media
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Greening the Media
- Review: Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration: Integrating Science, Nature, and Culture. Conklin, Jamie L
- Abstract: Book Review: Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration: Integrating Science, Nature, and Culture
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration: Integrating Science, Nature, and Culture
- Review: Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong. Little, Peter C.
- Abstract: Book Review
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review
- Review: Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times. Laberge, Yves
- Abstract: Book Review: Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times
- The Perils of Consumption and the Gift Economy as the Solution Daniel Miller’s Consumption and Its Consequences. Leahy, Terry
- Abstract: Miller is an anthropologist who has done much work on people’s connections to consumer objects. This has put him at odds with the view that modern consumerism is driven by false needs. His latest book also acknowledges the impact of consumption on the environment. Miller argues there is no chance of reigning in consumption with campaigns for moral reform. He favours regulation by a so-called neutral science. Whether this is any more politically palatable than moral reform is debatable. Miller does not sufficiently emphasize the role of alienated labour. Within the political framework he favours, alienated labour is inevitable. However, the gift economy could alleviate pressures for consumption by abolishing alienated labour. Miller’s ethnographies appear to show that every consumed product is much wanted. The critique of market failures expains the problems with this conclusion. A complete replacement of the market with the gift economy could be the best option for avoiding problems with consumption.
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Miller is an anthropologist who has done much work on people’s connections to consumer objects. This has put him at odds with the view that modern consumerism is driven by false needs. His latest book also acknowledges the impact of consumption on the environment. Miller argues there is no chance of reigning in consumption with campaigns for moral reform. He favours regulation by a so-called neutral science. Whether this is any more politically palatable than moral reform is debatable. Miller does not sufficiently emphasize the role of alienated labour. Within the political framework he favours, alienated labour is inevitable. However, the gift economy could alleviate pressures for consumption by abolishing alienated labour. Miller’s ethnographies appear to show that every consumed product is much wanted. The critique of market failures expains the problems with this conclusion. A complete replacement of the market with the gift economy could be the best option for avoiding problems with consumption.
- Online Environmental Citizenship: Blogs, Green Marketing and consumer sentiment in the 21st Century. Luck, Edwina; Ginanti, Ayu
- Abstract: Consumers’ environmental consciousness is widespread with public acceptance of the global environmental crisis causing shifts in the debates within the environmental movement. The last three decades have seen consumers’ environmental consciousness grow as the environment has become a mainstream issue encouraging individual, government and company rethinking. Our longitudinal, empirical research findings are innovative and contribute by exploring global green blog sites using a content analysis, qualitative research technique Leximancer, which is an ideal analysis method that captures the essence of large volumes of textual data to draw significance. This snapshot monitored public opinion and found important concepts discussed over two, four month periods including energy, company, action, products, climate change, emissions, business, carbon, electric cars, organic and plastic. Our results revealed bloggers believe themselves to be influential and instrumental in creating change through environmental citizens...
PubDate: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Consumers’ environmental consciousness is widespread with public acceptance of the global environmental crisis causing shifts in the debates within the environmental movement. The last three decades have seen consumers’ environmental consciousness grow as the environment has become a mainstream issue encouraging individual, government and company rethinking. Our longitudinal, empirical research findings are innovative and contribute by exploring global green blog sites using a content analysis, qualitative research technique Leximancer, which is an ideal analysis method that captures the essence of large volumes of textual data to draw significance. This snapshot monitored public opinion and found important concepts discussed over two, four month periods including energy, company, action, products, climate change, emissions, business, carbon, electric cars, organic and plastic. Our results revealed bloggers believe themselves to be influential and instrumental in creating change through environmental citizens...
- Going beyond Environmental Programs and Green Practices at the American Library Association. Jankowska, Maria A.
- Abstract: The intent of this editorial is to provide a starting point for a more comprehensive assessment of libraries’ progress towards environmental sustainability, and consequently contribute to a discourse on pathways that can enable sustainable development of libraries in the future.
PubDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: The intent of this editorial is to provide a starting point for a more comprehensive assessment of libraries’ progress towards environmental sustainability, and consequently contribute to a discourse on pathways that can enable sustainable development of libraries in the future.
- Information in Place: Integrating Sustainability into Information Literacy Instruction. Stark, Megan R
- Abstract: Academic librarians have not fully approached the role they could play in embedding sustainability into information literacy: the process of critically accessing, evaluating and using information. This area is a rich opportunity for libraries to help train students to shift their thinking toward more sustainable models. Because libraries are central to students’ academic investigations, the work of librarians in embedding information literacy across the curriculum is an obvious place to transform the practices of knowledge inquiry. By adapting the national ACRL standards to the cultural, historical, ecological, economic and local environment at the University of Montana, students will be led to recognize the importance of the sustainability, place and impact of the information.
PubDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Academic librarians have not fully approached the role they could play in embedding sustainability into information literacy: the process of critically accessing, evaluating and using information. This area is a rich opportunity for libraries to help train students to shift their thinking toward more sustainable models. Because libraries are central to students’ academic investigations, the work of librarians in embedding information literacy across the curriculum is an obvious place to transform the practices of knowledge inquiry. By adapting the national ACRL standards to the cultural, historical, ecological, economic and local environment at the University of Montana, students will be led to recognize the importance of the sustainability, place and impact of the information.
- Embedding your Green Message through Asynchronous Learning. Filar Williams, Beth
- Abstract: This article summarizes a presentation given at the Amigos Library Services Going Green 2 online conference in November 2010. Embedding green messages within your work, tasks, programs, tools, and teaching will passively or subtly inform others without being forceful. My library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro recently completed a large ten module research tutorial covering concepts from forming a topic to citing sources. By embedding the theme of recycling throughout the entire tutorial, users become more environmentally literate. This brief article discusses the tutorial project and the usefulness of embedding messages within other academic areas, instruction, projects or activities.
PubDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This article summarizes a presentation given at the Amigos Library Services Going Green 2 online conference in November 2010. Embedding green messages within your work, tasks, programs, tools, and teaching will passively or subtly inform others without being forceful. My library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro recently completed a large ten module research tutorial covering concepts from forming a topic to citing sources. By embedding the theme of recycling throughout the entire tutorial, users become more environmentally literate. This brief article discusses the tutorial project and the usefulness of embedding messages within other academic areas, instruction, projects or activities.
- Environmental Information Sources: WebSites and Books. Shrode, Flora
- Abstract: Regular column
PubDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Regular column
- Fueling Green Debate: Creating Student Reading List for Environmental Science Debates Using RefShare. O'Toole, Erin M; Adkins, Carl
- Abstract: Environmental Science is a high-enrollment, freshman-level course in the Biological Sciences Department at the University of North Texas. Dr. Ruthanne Thompson, one of the Environmental Science professors, asked the library liaison for the Biological Sciences Department to create reading lists to support student debates on evolution and global warming in the course. This paper describes the guidelines established for selecting the readings and the sources that yielded the most suitable readings for the debates. Besides impacting the science education of a large number of college students, the librarian saw an opportunity to introduce a green collaborative approach to the professor. The paper elucidates how the librarian and her graduate assistant used the bibliographic management software RefWorks and its collaborative feature RefShare to collect, organize and share the readings with each other and the professor without printing out any materials. The final reading lists are included as an appendix.
PubDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Environmental Science is a high-enrollment, freshman-level course in the Biological Sciences Department at the University of North Texas. Dr. Ruthanne Thompson, one of the Environmental Science professors, asked the library liaison for the Biological Sciences Department to create reading lists to support student debates on evolution and global warming in the course. This paper describes the guidelines established for selecting the readings and the sources that yielded the most suitable readings for the debates. Besides impacting the science education of a large number of college students, the librarian saw an opportunity to introduce a green collaborative approach to the professor. The paper elucidates how the librarian and her graduate assistant used the bibliographic management software RefWorks and its collaborative feature RefShare to collect, organize and share the readings with each other and the professor without printing out any materials. The final reading lists are included as an appendix.
- Review: Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse by Dean Bavington. Jenkins, David
- PubDate: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores. Hamilton-Smith, Elery
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines. Anderson, Byron P.
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PROTECTING LIFE ON EARTH. Anderson, Byron P.
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Review: Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America. Ferrara, Enzo
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway. Miller, Ryder W.
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of National Parks. Hoover, Jeanne
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future. Anderson, Byron P.
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Book Review of The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada. Jenkins, David
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- The Conservation Program Handbook: A Guide for Local Government Land Acquisition. Hamilton-Smith, Elery
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance. Vettese, Troy
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- The Failure of Environmental Education [And How We Can Fix It]. Hamilton-Smith, Elery
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Life in the Hothouse: How a Living Planet Survives Climate Change. Hamilton-Smith, Elery
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Nature's Northwest: The Pacific Northwest Slope in the Twentieth Century. Karalus, Daniel E
- Abstract: Nature's Northwest: The Pacific Northwest Slope in the Twentieth Century
PubDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Nature's Northwest: The Pacific Northwest Slope in the Twentieth Century
- The Theory of Justice in a Warming Climate. Kunnas, Jan
- Abstract: This article test, whether John Rawls´ Theory of Justice is still relevant in a warming climate. The starting point is Finland, which is assumed as a useful example, as many social indicators suggest that Finland is close to a Rawlsian egalitarian standards of distributive justice. The theory is brought to the globalized world of 21st century, by widening the perspective from to a global level.
It can be argued that economic growth in developed countries benefits people in developing countries, as we can afford to give more development aid. I argue, however, that this has not been large enough to compensate for its the negative side effects, most notably that of a warming climate. Furthermore, the costs of current carbon fueled economic growth favoring present generations in the developed countries will mainly be paid by future generations of the poor in developing countries.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This article test, whether John Rawls´ Theory of Justice is still relevant in a warming climate. The starting point is Finland, which is assumed as a useful example, as many social indicators suggest that Finland is close to a Rawlsian egalitarian standards of distributive justice. The theory is brought to the globalized world of 21st century, by widening the perspective from to a global level.
It can be argued that economic growth in developed countries benefits people in developing countries, as we can afford to give more development aid. I argue, however, that this has not been large enough to compensate for its the negative side effects, most notably that of a warming climate. Furthermore, the costs of current carbon fueled economic growth favoring present generations in the developed countries will mainly be paid by future generations of the poor in developing countries.
- Review: Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea. Harth, Amy
- Abstract: Book Review: Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea
- Review: Manufacturing National Park Nature. Mason, Fred
- Abstract: Book Review: Manufacturing national park nature : photography, ecology, and the wilderness industry of Jasper
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Manufacturing national park nature : photography, ecology, and the wilderness industry of Jasper
- Review: Knowledge and Environmental Policy. Little, Peter C.
- Abstract: Book Review: Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re-imagining the boundards of science and politics
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re-imagining the boundards of science and politics
- Review: Making Nature Whole: A History of Ecological Restoration. Anderson, Byron P.
- Abstract: Book review: Making Nature Whole: A History of Ecological Restoration
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book review: Making Nature Whole: A History of Ecological Restoration
- Review: A Landscape History of New England. Mason, Fred
- Abstract: Book review: A Landscape History of New England
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book review: A Landscape History of New England
- Rethinking Sustainability on Planet Earth: A Time for New Framings. Dylan, Arielle
- Abstract: Sustainable development and sustainability have been key terms in environmental thought and practice since the time of the Brundtland Report. Because of being firmly situated in the humanist tradition, these terms and their associated approaches have been appealing to social workers tackling environmental concerns. Given the significant and inexorable changes being wrought by global warming and the lack of similitude between Earth prior to anthropogenic warming and the incipient Eaarth introduced by global warming, examining the continued relevance of the terms sustainable development and sustainability is warranted. This chapter explores these terms in the context of climate change and points toward a responsibility approach based on environmental and social justice principles consistent with social work strengths and values.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Sustainable development and sustainability have been key terms in environmental thought and practice since the time of the Brundtland Report. Because of being firmly situated in the humanist tradition, these terms and their associated approaches have been appealing to social workers tackling environmental concerns. Given the significant and inexorable changes being wrought by global warming and the lack of similitude between Earth prior to anthropogenic warming and the incipient Eaarth introduced by global warming, examining the continued relevance of the terms sustainable development and sustainability is warranted. This chapter explores these terms in the context of climate change and points toward a responsibility approach based on environmental and social justice principles consistent with social work strengths and values.
- Environmental Information Sources: Websites and Books. Shrode, Flora
- Abstract: Websites and books related to environmental science.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Websites and books related to environmental science.
- Examining the Impact of Religion on Environmentalism 1993-2010: Has the Religious Environmental Movement Made a Difference'. Hand, Carl Michael; Crowe, Jessica Leigh
- Abstract: The view that emerged in the social science and religious literature is that Judeo-Christian tradition was in part responsible for the environmental crisis by fostering a "dominion mandate" or mastery-over-nature orientation. Despite the growing significance of the environmental movement, most church bodies had not addressed the problem officially until the early 1990s. Several national and faith-based organizations evolved to catalyze interest and organize the movement. This paper examines whether those efforts resulted in a significant change in environmental attitudes, beliefs, or behavior among the religiously involved. Using data from the General Social Survey for 1993, 2000, and 2010, results indicate that the respondents' denominational identification, grouped in terms of its liberal, moderate, or fundamentalist orientation, was weakly but significantly associated with several indicators of environmentalism for all three study years. These associations remain relatively consistent throughout this perio...
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: The view that emerged in the social science and religious literature is that Judeo-Christian tradition was in part responsible for the environmental crisis by fostering a "dominion mandate" or mastery-over-nature orientation. Despite the growing significance of the environmental movement, most church bodies had not addressed the problem officially until the early 1990s. Several national and faith-based organizations evolved to catalyze interest and organize the movement. This paper examines whether those efforts resulted in a significant change in environmental attitudes, beliefs, or behavior among the religiously involved. Using data from the General Social Survey for 1993, 2000, and 2010, results indicate that the respondents' denominational identification, grouped in terms of its liberal, moderate, or fundamentalist orientation, was weakly but significantly associated with several indicators of environmentalism for all three study years. These associations remain relatively consistent throughout this perio...
- Review: Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice. Conklin, Jamie
- Abstract: Book Review: Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
- Review: Sacrifice Zones. Little, Peter C.
- Abstract: Book Review: Sacrifice Zones: The front lines of tocix chemical toxic chemical exposure in the United States
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Sacrifice Zones: The front lines of tocix chemical toxic chemical exposure in the United States
- Review: Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life. Anderson, Byron P.
- Abstract: Book Review: Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book Review: Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life
- Review: Wicked Environmental Problems. Jenkins, David
- Abstract: Review: Wicked Envrionmental Problems
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Review: Wicked Envrionmental Problems
- Shaping Environmental Justice: Applying Science; Technology and Society Boundary Work. Huang, Chih-Tung
- Abstract: This article applies Gieryn’s two concepts of boundary-work, ‘expansion’ and ‘exclusion’, to observing ‘Environmental Justice’ (EJ) research. The application of boundary-work in the field of EJ science shows that similar phenomena noted in Gieryn’s case studies can also be found in EJ research. EJ scientists continue to shape and reshape the meaning of EJ. Meanwhile, activists also use rhetoric boundaries to discredit the legitimacy of EJ’s opponents. We suggest that the EJ movement is still dependent on scientists to provide a scientific way to foster equal distribution of environmental risks. However, to achieve a just distribution, science along is not enough. Public participation in the field of both EJ science and the political movement is necessary.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This article applies Gieryn’s two concepts of boundary-work, ‘expansion’ and ‘exclusion’, to observing ‘Environmental Justice’ (EJ) research. The application of boundary-work in the field of EJ science shows that similar phenomena noted in Gieryn’s case studies can also be found in EJ research. EJ scientists continue to shape and reshape the meaning of EJ. Meanwhile, activists also use rhetoric boundaries to discredit the legitimacy of EJ’s opponents. We suggest that the EJ movement is still dependent on scientists to provide a scientific way to foster equal distribution of environmental risks. However, to achieve a just distribution, science along is not enough. Public participation in the field of both EJ science and the political movement is necessary.
- Paying for Green: An economics literature review on the constraints to financing environmental innovation. Johnson, Daniel K.N.; Lybecker, Kristina M.
- Abstract: In an effort to explore the potential for financing environmental innovation, this paper examines different forms of financing and attempts to evaluate their effectiveness. The study considers both public and private forms of funding as well as providing policy suggestions for the support of appropriate financing for eco-innovation.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: In an effort to explore the potential for financing environmental innovation, this paper examines different forms of financing and attempts to evaluate their effectiveness. The study considers both public and private forms of funding as well as providing policy suggestions for the support of appropriate financing for eco-innovation.
- Could Percived Risks Explain the ‘Green Gap’ in Green Product Consumption'. Durif, Fabien; Roy, Jean; Boivin, Caroline
- Abstract: Although green consumption is increasingly popular in the academic literature, practice is still far from commonplace among consumers. Few studies have been conducted to explain consumer reluctance to adopt green products (GPs), particularly with regard to the roles of the various risks consumers perceive in their purchases. However, perceived risks towards GPs could be one of the explanations for the ‘green gap’ – the difference between pro-environmental attitudes and green purchase behaviour. We used a means-end chain (MEC) approach to explore the links that consumers establish between the attributes of green cleaning products, their consequences, and their perceived risks. Findings indicate that consumers perceive greater risk with respect to the functional, financial, and temporal aspects of GPs than to their physical and psychosocial aspects. Social desirability appears to be a strong personal value attached to the purchase of GPs. We also identified positive (pleasant fragrance, natural ingredients, rec...
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Although green consumption is increasingly popular in the academic literature, practice is still far from commonplace among consumers. Few studies have been conducted to explain consumer reluctance to adopt green products (GPs), particularly with regard to the roles of the various risks consumers perceive in their purchases. However, perceived risks towards GPs could be one of the explanations for the ‘green gap’ – the difference between pro-environmental attitudes and green purchase behaviour. We used a means-end chain (MEC) approach to explore the links that consumers establish between the attributes of green cleaning products, their consequences, and their perceived risks. Findings indicate that consumers perceive greater risk with respect to the functional, financial, and temporal aspects of GPs than to their physical and psychosocial aspects. Social desirability appears to be a strong personal value attached to the purchase of GPs. We also identified positive (pleasant fragrance, natural ingredients, rec...
- Public Geology at Griffith Park in Los Angeles: A Sample Teachers’ Guide. Helman, Daniel S
- Abstract: The paper promotes urban parks as suitable locations for geology field trips. A sample field guide of Griffith Park in Los Angeles is presented. The area described includes fault splays in the Santa Monica Fault Zone, and shows an inferred linkage between the Hollywood Fault and the Eagle Rock Fault. A conjunction of three faults is described, along with prominent jointing.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: The paper promotes urban parks as suitable locations for geology field trips. A sample field guide of Griffith Park in Los Angeles is presented. The area described includes fault splays in the Santa Monica Fault Zone, and shows an inferred linkage between the Hollywood Fault and the Eagle Rock Fault. A conjunction of three faults is described, along with prominent jointing.
- Environmental Information Sources: Websites and Books. Shrode, Flora
- Abstract: Listing of websites and recently published books on topics related to environmental science.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Listing of websites and recently published books on topics related to environmental science.
- The Potential of Plug-in Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicles as Grid Resources: the Case of a Gas and Petroleum Oriented Elecricity Generation System. Greer, Mark R
- Abstract: Using data pertaining to the wholesale electricity market for Long Island, New York, a market unusually dependent on natural gas- and petroleum-fired generation, the article examines the potential uses of plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles for various electricity grid services. The one area in which the vehicles could clearly play an economically favorable role is frequency regulation services, whereby the vehicles would minutely fluctuate the power they feed into the grid or take from it, in order to keep the total power being fed into the grid in constant balance with the total demand for power. The article also discusses the potential pitfalls in designing an institutional architecture for integrating the vehicles into the market for frequency regulation services.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Using data pertaining to the wholesale electricity market for Long Island, New York, a market unusually dependent on natural gas- and petroleum-fired generation, the article examines the potential uses of plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles for various electricity grid services. The one area in which the vehicles could clearly play an economically favorable role is frequency regulation services, whereby the vehicles would minutely fluctuate the power they feed into the grid or take from it, in order to keep the total power being fed into the grid in constant balance with the total demand for power. The article also discusses the potential pitfalls in designing an institutional architecture for integrating the vehicles into the market for frequency regulation services.
- When the Rains Come: A Naturalist’s Year in the Sonoran Desert. Laberge, Yves
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
- Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology. Anderson, Byron P.
- Abstract: Book review.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Book review.
- The Last Refuge of the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel: Ecology of Endangerment. Conklin, Jamie L
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
- Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment. Harth, Amy E
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
- Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem. Karalus, Daniel E
- Abstract: Review
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Review
- Green Ethics and Philosophy: An A-to-Z Guide; and Green Issues and Debates: An A-to-Z Guide. Anderson, Byron
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
- Eau Canada: The Future of Canada's Water. Laberge, Yves
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
- Everyday Environmentalism: Law, Nature & Individual Behavior. Anderson, Byron P.
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
- Beyond Resource Wars: Scarcity, Environmental Degradation, and International Cooperation. Kunnas, Jan
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: This is a book review and there is no abstract.
- Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management. Conklin, Jamie
- Abstract: Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management
PubDate: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management
- Governing Water. Carchidi, Victoria
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Global Environmental Change and Human Security. Kunnas, Jan
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Environmental Information Sources: Websites and Books. Shrode, Flora
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-Carbon Economy: How to Create, Measure, and Verify Greenhouse Gas Offsets.. Mohanty, Tanaya
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- How to Proceed After Copenhagen. Kunnas, Jan
- Abstract: In this paper, I bring forth a proposal on how to proceed with the Climate Negotiations after the meager results of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2009 in Copenhagen. I argue that splitting continued negotiations into two separate blocks could both save time and make it more likely to ultimately reach a comprehensive treaty in Mexico City in December 2010. The first block would deal with historical emissions of greenhouse gases including a mutual debt cancellation: developed countries carbon debts vs. developing countries conventional monetary debts. The second block would deal with future emissions and how to finance adaption to climate change. Following the polluter pays –principle, I argue that the funds should be collected in proportion to the responsibility for proceeding climate change and redistributed in proportion to the needs for adaption.
PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: In this paper, I bring forth a proposal on how to proceed with the Climate Negotiations after the meager results of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2009 in Copenhagen. I argue that splitting continued negotiations into two separate blocks could both save time and make it more likely to ultimately reach a comprehensive treaty in Mexico City in December 2010. The first block would deal with historical emissions of greenhouse gases including a mutual debt cancellation: developed countries carbon debts vs. developing countries conventional monetary debts. The second block would deal with future emissions and how to finance adaption to climate change. Following the polluter pays –principle, I argue that the funds should be collected in proportion to the responsibility for proceeding climate change and redistributed in proportion to the needs for adaption.
- Human Footprints on the Global Environment. Ferrara, Enzo
- Abstract: no abstract
PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: no abstract
- The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada. Mathoor, Vineeth
- Abstract: Liza Piper The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Liza Piper The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
- Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism. Anderson, Byron P.
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- The Lorax Can Win: Using Scenario Building to Create A New Vision and Invigorate An "Activist" Agenda for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Basin. Rankin-Gouthro, Erin E, Krantzberg, Gail
- Abstract: There is movement afoot across the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Basin to create a binational vision. As argued by scholars, heightened public awareness and government commitment are coalescing to create a potential spark for transformative change. While this transformation is exigent, it is by no means certain. By examining the question, “what can happen if…” we used scenario building to explore four alternative futures open to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Basin. These futures and the discussions they generate serve as a strategic means to inform the evolution of this new vision. By throwing into relief the undesirable futures possible for this region, we argue for an “activist” agenda calling on all interests to seize this pivotal moment in the history of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence and help turn it from potential collapse to sustainability.
PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: There is movement afoot across the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Basin to create a binational vision. As argued by scholars, heightened public awareness and government commitment are coalescing to create a potential spark for transformative change. While this transformation is exigent, it is by no means certain. By examining the question, “what can happen if…” we used scenario building to explore four alternative futures open to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Basin. These futures and the discussions they generate serve as a strategic means to inform the evolution of this new vision. By throwing into relief the undesirable futures possible for this region, we argue for an “activist” agenda calling on all interests to seize this pivotal moment in the history of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence and help turn it from potential collapse to sustainability.
- Managing Water Resources: Methods and Tools for a Systems Approach. Hamilton-Smith, Elery
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- North Woods River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History. Karalus, Daniel E
- Abstract: North Woods River: The St. Croix in Upper Midwest History
PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: North Woods River: The St. Croix in Upper Midwest History
- Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past. Mathoor, Vineeth
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- The Rising Sea. Miller, Ryder W.
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary. Carchidi, Victoria
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- The Social Complexity of Renewable Energy Production in the Countryside. Kunze, Conrad, Busch, Henner
- Abstract: Based on field studies in 7 cases rural renewable energy projects in Brandenburg (federal state of Germany) were analysed during an 18 month period (early 2009 to mid 2010). The study identified relevant social dimensions of renewable energy technology and classified them according to organizational complexity, technology acceptance, participation by locals and financing models. This research shows that social complexity that accompanies renewable energy projects can be equally challenging as economic or technical aspects.
PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: Based on field studies in 7 cases rural renewable energy projects in Brandenburg (federal state of Germany) were analysed during an 18 month period (early 2009 to mid 2010). The study identified relevant social dimensions of renewable energy technology and classified them according to organizational complexity, technology acceptance, participation by locals and financing models. This research shows that social complexity that accompanies renewable energy projects can be equally challenging as economic or technical aspects.
- Treading Softly. Anderson, Byron P.
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. Maret, Susan
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Water War in the Klamath Basin. Carchidi, Victoria
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT
- Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing. Ravega, Katea
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Changing Climates in North American Politics. Anderson, Byron P.
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. Jenkins, David
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Cottonwood and the River of Time: On Trees, Evolution, and Society. Miller, Ryder W.
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays. Miller, Ryder W.
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Earth Day 2010: Earth Day 40th Anniversary Poster. Nowacka, Izabela
- Abstract: EGJ Issue 30 Earth Day 2010
ISSN 1076-7975 In celebration of 40th Earth Day the Electronic Green Journal presents one contemporary and twelve posters from 1970s focusing on ecology and the environment.
PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: EGJ Issue 30 Earth Day 2010
- Environmental Information Sources: Websites and Books. Shrode, Flora
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union. Little, Peter C.
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Farming in a Changing Climate: Agricultural Adaptation in Canada. Jain, Varinder
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Food For Thought: The Social Impact of Community Gardens in the Greater Cleveland Area. Flachs, Andrew
- Abstract: While the benefits of healthy eating and greenspace development have been well documented, the social impact of urban and community gardens remain less studied. This paper explores the social and cultural effects of urban gardening in the greater Cleveland area. Gardening is shown to have a multitude of motivating factors, including economic, environmental, political, social, and nutritional. While analyzing the impact that gardens have on community building, identity, and food security, some authors claim that the gardeners themselves are preoccupied with the economic impact of their actions. Perversely, this leads readers to the conclusion that poor people or people of color are only interested in gardening for its dollar value. Following this argument, more affluent gardeners have the security to ignore the economic impact and focus only on furthering an environmentalist agenda. Such authors presume that utilitarian function and environmentalist ideology are mutually exclusive, but my own fieldwork sh...
PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Abstract: While the benefits of healthy eating and greenspace development have been well documented, the social impact of urban and community gardens remain less studied. This paper explores the social and cultural effects of urban gardening in the greater Cleveland area. Gardening is shown to have a multitude of motivating factors, including economic, environmental, political, social, and nutritional. While analyzing the impact that gardens have on community building, identity, and food security, some authors claim that the gardeners themselves are preoccupied with the economic impact of their actions. Perversely, this leads readers to the conclusion that poor people or people of color are only interested in gardening for its dollar value. Following this argument, more affluent gardeners have the security to ignore the economic impact and focus only on furthering an environmentalist agenda. Such authors presume that utilitarian function and environmentalist ideology are mutually exclusive, but my own fieldwork sh...
- Parks and People: Managing Outdoor Recreation at Acadia National Park. Miller, Ryder W.
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation. Silveira, Joselito
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- Planetizen Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning. Hamilton-Smith, Elery
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- The Politics of Climate Change. Laberge, Yves
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
- PubDate: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT
